The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-06-01
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THE BOYS WHO ARE wAHTEl

Bend your sinews to the task.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Though your duty may be hard.
Look not on it as an ill.,
If it be an honest task
Do it with an honest will.
High-watcr mark-Your chin.
The turning point-The pitchfori.. /
Stage struck-Hit by an omnibus.
The health question-How are you:
Posing for clfect-A goat ready TO autt.
Superior blankets are now woven OF COW
hair.
Labor has bitter roots but sweet fruits aS
well.
Straws shows which way the sherry cob,
Ter goes.
The black silk hat can go 10 ttiv head
once more.
The sky, unlike man, is mes. ci'cesig'
when blue>t
He who foresecs calamities suffers them
twice over
Jones saystlle only trouble with his baby
is that it is too high toned.
1t is not good way to preserving yo"r
fingers to have them ''iammcd.
Truth crushed to earth will rise again
Provided the yeast is not sour.
The man who wouldn't wonder must
be the --latest man in the world.
When a man starts out TO paint town
red. he does not do it in water colcrS.
Why is an infrm old man like musical
character Each require 4 stall.
There are few girls that can make 4 per
feet mash when a potato is the subject.
Alaska is soon to have :. newspaper In
that cold country it ought to be blanket
sheet
How shall l sleep asks a correspond
ent Try to stay awake to catch some
train
90, N.Y. exclaimed Edith, upon her
first entrance into the rink; they're all on
castors' ant they
The gravest beast is an ass the graveSt
bird is IN owl, the gravest fish is IN oyster,
and the gra7est man is a fool.
A young lady calls her beau honey
suckle, because he is always hanging over
the front Rulings.
I'm at your service, madam said the
witty burglar when caught with his arnls
full of silverware.
The usual course is to draw before com
mencing to paint, but some women reverse
the rule, and don't draw.
"Who was the straightcst man in the
Bible?" Joseph" " Why 'Becrusc Pla-
| raoh made a ruler of him.
The Duke of Argyll says the world is
| ten million years old. How did he find
out:
Let your heart be as large as the world.
but let there be no room in it to hold the
memory Of a wrong.
The turning point in a womans life
When she makes oyer that old dress,
''wrongside out.
A boy is called "a yourg hopeful" he.
cause the one hopeful thing about him is
that he vii! not always be cyoung.
'Nervcus Girl wants to know how TO
cure "a tickling sensation about the face.
Get him to shave off his norstachc.
"AIa, why is that darkcy equivalent 10 a
conundrum!" "I'm sure | don't know,
my soa. Because he's angina. Sec:'
They are now making bricks Of cork, hut
the bricks carried in hats late at night VII!
continue TO be made from the old material.
We suppose our sailors could chew shay
ings on a pinch, because they are used 10
eating aboard.
Dr. Hammond says eating mutton will
make women handsome. Hence their par
tiality for sheepish young men.
'Tis an i'll thing to be ashamed Of ones
poverty, but much worse not to make use
| of lawful endcavors to avoid It.
There is town in Arkansaw which
struggles under the name of 'Limburger.
Well wager a scent that it's live town.
Pa, want 10 90 whaling" "All right,
my SON. AnG in few minutes he was
busy in the wocdshed, with lets Of blubber.
II men knew as much at forty years Of
age as they thought they knew at twenty
| there would be more statesmen in the
country.
A turnover is so called because when
eaten at night it makes person turn over
about seven hundred times before he can
go to sleep.
Revenge is sweet. First Baseballist-
All, ha, hear you fellows were licked yes
terday. Second Baseballist-Yes, but you
just ought to have seen the umpire.
A New Jersey dcfaulter tried to kill him
self after being informed OF his crime. The
news should have been broken to him more
gently, as he had probably not heard of it.
Yes sighed old Mrs. Gumbo, that
accident was horrible. When I read about
it, It exaggerated me so that couldn't de-
compose myself for several hours.
An Eastern paper says that dozen pretty
girls from New Haven are taking tramp
through the Adirondack Mountains. That
tramp must be having a good time.
You may speak, said fond mother,
about people having strength OF mind,
but when it comes to strength Of don't
mind, my son William surpasses everybody
l ever knew.
You say you are in love with two girls,
both beautiful, one 'divinciy tall. > and the
other "a perfect little fairy" Marry the
little one. She won't need so much stuff
for dress.
A little girl went into 4 dug store, the
other day, and said to the proprietor, in 4
half whisper IF a good little girl Amt got
no money. how much chewing gum do you
give her for nothing?